Fiction
Jane Sanderson talks to Brian Viner
Ravenscliffe
1:00pm | Friday 14 September 2012Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
£N/A | 1 Hour | Blenheim Palace: The Indian Room |
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Novelist Jane Sanderson returns to the festival to discuss her new novel Ravenscliffe with her husband, journalist and non-fiction writer Brian Viner. The two will also explore the differences between writing fiction and non-fiction.
Ravenscliffe is the sequel to Sanderson’s debut novel Netherwood. It takes the story on to 1906 and covers the early stirrings of the labour movement and women’s suffrage. Ravenscliffe follows Russian emigré Anna Rabinovich as she transforms the home Ravenscliffe she shares with friend Eve Williams. Anna finds herself attracted to union man Amos, but when Eve’s long-lost brother Silas arrives in the small mining community of Netherwood, cracks appear in friendships.
Sanderson grew up in a mining community. She went on to work in local newspapers before producing BBC radio programmes such as The World at One and Woman’s Hour. Viner is a former sports writer for The Independent best known for his long-running weekly sports interview. He is the author of five books including Ali, Pele, Lillee & Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies.